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Free Your Mind and Think
Think Outside of “The Jones” Box Ready to build a new home or remodel? Approaching a new home or remodel project with the willingness to explore...
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Home Design: Hand Sketching vs Architectural Drawing
Architectural Drawing vs Hand Sketching in Home Design – Talk to the Hand! Architects throughout history have been trained in drafting techniques...
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Ypsilanti Farmers Market – Growing Hope with a Blue Barn Door
Ypsilanti Farmers Market – Growing Hope with a Blue Barn Door For a couple of years we have been working with some of the folks at an organization in...
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Updating That 1970s House
If you’re of a “certain age,” you likely have a particular fondness for all things from the 1970s. The avocado green, burnt orange, and harvest gold...
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Staging 101: When Less Is More
Easy Tips for Home Staging If you’re thinking about selling your home or preparing it for a tour or photography shoot, you’ll want to stage your...
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These are a Few of My Favorite Things
The smell of spring is in the air and we can read it on people’s faces and see it in their smiles. Somehow 50 degree weather transitions us...
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A Memory of Light: Sunlight and Architectural Design
We’ve been designing homes around the position of the sun since we started taking shelter millennia ago. The era of tract housing and subdivisions...
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What We Find Behind Drywall: The Challenges of Remodeling Older Homes
Discovering Hidden “Treasure” Remodeling an existing home presents many challenges that are not typically found when designing a new home. The above...
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Design Build Takes a Village
Imagine you are in a maze. The idea is to find your way through a series of passages to find the end. Imagine there isn’t only one end goal to find,...
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Navigating Architecture: Active Design
The architecture school on the University of Michigan campus is located a bit far from the central campus most are familiar with – the one that holds...